Justice.
Our Lord, our model, was given an unjust sentence, and the divine result was utter righteousness
“And so, to be workers of this true justice, we must be workers who are being made just by contact with him who is justice itself: Jesus of Nazareth. The place of this encounter is the Church, nowhere more powerfully present than in her sacraments and liturgy. The celebration of the holy triduum, which we will enter into next week, is the triumph of God’s justice over human judgments…In the Easter Vigil, the light of God’s justice banishes the darkness of sin and death; the stone at the tomb (made of the same material as the stones in the hands of those who, in today’s Gospel, seek to kill Christ) is pushed away for ever, and human life is given a future which, in going beyond the categories of this world, reveals the true meaning and the true value of earthly realities”
This is a homily given by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger a month prior to his election as Pope Benedict XVI (March 18, 2005) at St. Peter’s Basilica
